is Stealth gameplay obligatory?

[DAYLEET]

Im only interested in going in gunblazing.

[Artek [General]]

Trick question, somewhat.

Ideally, especially for new players? Yes. You wanna save as many bullets as you can for when you actually need them. Death by no ammo is a real thing here, happens to people fairly often.

However a lot of levels, particularly A-tiers are relatively generous with ammo and don't have too many enemies, so you can genuinely get away by just going brrrt. But you'll have to be experienced and know how to search for ammo to truly get away with it.
Once you start entering C tiers and higher - stealth (or lack thereof) will be more impactful on your long term survival.

[DAYLEET]

thanks!

[zero1]

Believe me, there are enough moments in the game when you need to shoot a lot, but for this you need to save ammo, not spending it where you can kill in hand-to-hand combat (kill 70% of the time quietly). But waves of enemies need to be exterminated with weapons, and pray that there is enough ammo for you and EVERYONE on the team!! Good luck!!!

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

As long as you:
- Don't miss many shots
- Use your melee when you can to save ammo
- Bring highly ammo efficient weapons

Usually yes.

[Stormer]

Note the ideal way to do "stealth" is normally bum rushing in and trying to melee everything faster then they can respond (and even if you mess up the worst thing that happens is a single room becomes active)

[Ghoul Hunter]

Yes, you need to stealth. You are not supposed to shoot everything. Everyone here is playing devil's advocate.

It is true though, that good stealth is quite fast and fun. You basically walk around and stab everything in the head, before they finish their animations and trigger the alarm for the room. Sometimes you have a little melee skirmish.

[Manbarondenna]

usually how it works is that you do stealth until a section of the level has an event that you need to go guns blazing for - people mentioned you need to save ammo, its for that

some levels are straight up guns blazing themed

some levels have sections where if you mess up stealth you are dead meat